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A good working AntiVirus is also important. I personally advice Avast free or Avira. MSE it's detection is not so great.

Let's check how good your security is:

Download Security Check from here or here and save it to your Desktop.

Double-click SecurityCheck.exe

Follow the onscreen instructions inside of the black box.

A Notepad document should open automatically called checkup.txt; please post the contents of that document.

NOTE 1. If one of your security applications (e.g., third-party firewall) requests permission to allow DIG.EXE access the Internet, allow it to do so.
NOTE 2 SecurityCheck may produce some false warning(s), so leave the results reading to me.

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[ Fwiw, It seemed slightly expensive but got good reviews - esp for being fast/usable. It is a trial version. I dont like it because it seems very un-responsive. Often it can take a number of seconds for anything to appear to happen when you click on things. Also little or no feedback when it's doing an update... ]

You're correct about Bitdefender (it has good reviews), but Windows firewall will be disabled because in the internet security pack there is already a firewall integrated. So you don't have to worry (because inside your Bitdefender there must be a firewall) about the Windows firewall that's isn't running.

Edited by GodfatherKing, 05 August 2013 - 02:28 PM.

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I have a problem with BitDefender - it is failing to scan .zip & .dat files. It says (rather pathetically) that they all need passwords and I need to go through each of them one at a time entering the password.

But:
A. There are over 100 of them on my PC - too many to open individually

B. Some of the zip files I dont recognise - they seem to be part of applications

C. Many of the ones I do recognise do not need passwords!

On another forum they are raving about MSE, claiming that the negative reviews are purely down to *bias* i.e. lack of marketing dollars from Microsoft compared to the other AV companies.

So is BidDefender just being useless?

Can other AV scanners open up .zip & .dat files WITHOUT being given passwords?

Can other AV scanners open up .zip & .dat files WITHOUT being given passwords?

==> Normally other scanners will give the same alert about it, that it can't scan it because of password protection. If you don't recognize the .zip files that isn't normal.

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I don't won't to blame any AV, but I have seen many malwarecases with MSE and Mcafee. Mostly MSE.

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I recommend as Free = Avast Free and for paying AV's = Bitdefender or Emsisoft or Kaspersky

I always look into the independent tests, every few months and there is my opinion based for 50%. The other 50% goes to practical experience, I always give people tips and recommendations. The practical verify the other 50% too.

Edited by GodfatherKing, 06 August 2013 - 04:58 AM.

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